Cornersight vs Crunchbase
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The short answer
Both sides assessedCornersight compared with Crunchbase
Crunchbase records funding rounds and company events and alerts you when an account raises. Cornersight records who is engaging with relevant LinkedIn posts. A funding round is a reason to call a company; an engaged executive is a person to call. Most outbound teams benefit from both.
Crunchbase compared with Cornersight
Cornersight captures the named people engaging with LinkedIn posts from profiles, company pages and keyword searches, enriched and routed into a CRM or HeyReach from $99 a month. Crunchbase watches institutional events at the company level and emails you an alert. Cornersight tells you a named person is paying attention; Crunchbase tells you a company just raised eleven million. Most teams want both, and neither replaces the other.
Choose Cornersight if
Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP.
Choose Crunchbase if
Founders and small sales teams whose best trigger is a recent funding round, recruiters targeting newly funded companies, investors and corporate development teams tracking a market, and anyone who needs a defensible source for who invested in whom.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Cornersight | Crunchbase |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Signals | Signals |
| Starting price | $99 per month (Starter, 15,000 credits) (free trial) | $0 (Free), then $49 per user per month billed annually for Pro |
| Pricing model | Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent. | Per-seat subscription across free, Pro, Business, and quoted Enterprise tiers, with annual billing roughly half the monthly rate. |
| Free plan | No | Free search and company profile access with limited results, no advanced search, no alerts, no exports, and no Chrome extension. |
| Free trial | Free trial on every plan; length not published. Trial teams get up to 2 keyword searches of 250 leads each and 1,000 Agent checks | A free trial is offered on Pro |
| Best for | Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP. | Founders and small sales teams whose best trigger is a recent funding round, recruiters targeting newly funded companies, investors and corporate development teams tracking a market, and anyone who needs a defensible source for who invested in whom. |
| Setup time | Minutes to the first source: sign in with Google, paste a LinkedIn profile, company page or post URL, or enter keywords, and leads appear progressively during the first sync. Tuning ICP filters and caps takes a few days of watching what comes in. | Thirty minutes. Sign up, build one advanced search matching your ICP and funding criteria, save it as an alert, and install the Chrome extension. There is no configuration project. |
| Learning curve | Low. Most of the value comes from choosing sources whose audience matches your ICP, and the Engagement Agent can set those up from a list of topics. | Low. The search interface is conventional and the fields mean what they say. The only real judgement call is choosing funding thresholds and recency windows that produce a list small enough to actually work. |
| Platforms | Web application, REST API, MCP server, Command line interface | Web application, Chrome extension, REST API on Enterprise, MCP server, CSV export |
| Compliance | GDPR obligations apply to enriched personal data, No publicly advertised SOC 2 attestation | GDPR obligations apply to the people and contact records, Enterprise-grade security terms available under a negotiated agreement |
| Founded | 2026 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Not published | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped | Venture-backed, independent since spinning out of AOL in 2015 |
Strengths and limitations
Cornersight
Strengths
- Engagement-based lists reach people who are active on LinkedIn right now, which a filter on recent posters misses because most users react far more than they post.
- No LinkedIn account connection, so there is no session to hand over and no restriction risk on the buyer's own profile.
- A credit model tied to unique people per source, with free fetching and free failed lookups, keeps the bill tied to prospects rather than activity.
- Daily re-syncs capture engagement that arrives days after a post goes live, not just a snapshot at the moment of tracking.
Limitations
- LinkedIn only; buyers who are quiet there, or active elsewhere, produce no signal.
- No job-change, funding, hiring or website-visitor signals, so it covers one slice of the intent landscape.
- Launched in January 2026 and rebuilt in May, so the track record is months long and the product is still changing quickly.
- No published SOC 2, SSO or data-residency options, which rules it out for formal enterprise procurement.
Crunchbase
Strengths
- The most complete and most cited public record of funding rounds, investors, and acquisitions, with brand authority that makes it a defensible citation in a board deck.
- Saved searches and alerts turn funding into a recurring prospecting feed with almost no setup, which is a genuinely low-effort signal motion.
- Pro at $49 per seat annually billed is remarkably cheap for the quality of the underlying dataset.
- Multi-source assembly across community contributions, licensed feeds, over a thousand public sources, and an in-house data team produces better coverage than any single method.
Limitations
- The API is Enterprise-only and unpriced publicly, which shuts small technical teams out of automation entirely.
- Coverage is heavily skewed toward venture-backed technology companies; profitable bootstrapped businesses, traditional industries, and smaller non-US markets are thin.
- Export row limits are the real gate between tiers, and they are low enough on Pro to frustrate anyone running volume outbound.
- Community contribution means some profiles are self-reported and out of date, and there is no obvious visual marker distinguishing a verified record from one a company updated itself two years ago.
Pricing compared
Cornersight
Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent.
- Starter$99
- Growth$169
- Pro$329
- Scale$599
Cornersight is good value for a team whose buyers live on LinkedIn. $99 a month buys 15,000 unique, enriched engagers, with every delivery route included on every plan, and the per-person credit definition means heavy repeat engagement does not inflate the bill. Against a manual workflow of exporting post engagers and enriching them separately, it pays for itself in hours saved within the first week. The limits are scope and maturity rather than price: one network, no company-level events, and a product less than a year old.
Crunchbase
Per-seat subscription across free, Pro, Business, and quoted Enterprise tiers, with annual billing roughly half the monthly rate.
- Free$0
- Pro$49
- Business$199
- EnterpriseQuoted
Model it at two volumes. A founder on Pro at $49 a month running two saved searches and exporting a few hundred newly funded companies a month is getting the single best funding-signal feed available at a self-serve price, and nothing else in this category comes close for that specific job. A team on Business at $199 per seat exporting five thousand rows is paying about 4 cents a record plus predictions and CRM sync, which is fair but no longer cheap once you multiply by seats. The value breaks down at the API: needing programmatic access forces you into a quoted Enterprise deal, and at that point cheaper API-first vendors deserve a look. Pro is excellent value, Business is defensible, Enterprise is a different purchase entirely.
Editorial verdict on each
Cornersight
Best ValueCornersight is the tool to buy if your buyers are active on LinkedIn and you want the people engaging with your competitors, your category voices or your own content as enriched leads every morning. It does one signal thoroughly, re-syncs daily so late engagement is not lost, charges per unique person rather than per interaction, never touches your LinkedIn account, and delivers into HeyReach, a CRM or an AI agent on every plan from $99 a month. Its limits are clear: one network, no company-level events, and a product less than a year old with no compliance paperwork. With Trigify closing, it is the most direct replacement in this category for a LinkedIn engagement motion, and the free trial makes testing it on a handful of competitor profiles a low-risk afternoon.
Read the full Cornersight profileCrunchbase
Category LeaderCrunchbase is the default answer for funding signal and it has earned that position over nearly twenty years. Pro at $49 a seat annually billed is one of the better value purchases in this entire category if your buying trigger is a recent round: two saved searches and an alert give you a weekly list nobody else can assemble that cheaply, and the brand authority means nobody argues with the data. Buy Business only if you specifically want the predictions layer or the CRM sync, because a four times price increase for a higher export cap is not a good trade. The thing to check before committing is the API, which is Enterprise-only and unpriced, so any plan that involves automation ends in a sales conversation you should have early rather than late. And keep the coverage bias in mind: Crunchbase is excellent on venture-backed technology and quiet on everything else.
Read the full Crunchbase profileCornersight profile last reviewed 2026-10-11; Crunchbase last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between Cornersight and Crunchbase?
Crunchbase records funding rounds and company events and alerts you when an account raises. Cornersight records who is engaging with relevant LinkedIn posts. A funding round is a reason to call a company; an engaged executive is a person to call. Most outbound teams benefit from both.
Is Cornersight or Crunchbase cheaper?
Cornersight starts at $99 per month (Starter, 15,000 credits) (free trial). Crunchbase starts at $0 (Free), then $49 per user per month billed annually for Pro. The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. Cornersight pricing model: Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent. Crunchbase pricing model: Per-seat subscription across free, Pro, Business, and quoted Enterprise tiers, with annual billing roughly half the monthly rate.
Does Cornersight or Crunchbase have a free plan?
Cornersight has no free plan. Trial terms: Free trial on every plan; length not published. Trial teams get up to 2 keyword searches of 250 leads each and 1,000 Agent checks. Crunchbase has a free plan. Free search and company profile access with limited results, no advanced search, no alerts, no exports, and no Chrome extension. Trial terms: A free trial is offered on Pro.
Who should choose Cornersight?
Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP.
Who should choose Crunchbase?
Founders and small sales teams whose best trigger is a recent funding round, recruiters targeting newly funded companies, investors and corporate development teams tracking a market, and anyone who needs a defensible source for who invested in whom.
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